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The third and final volume of our Kaiki series returns us to the Capital City: Tokyo. While Japan has modernized, renaming old Edo as new-born Tokyo, strange secrets remain hidden under the chrome and spotlights, unaffected by our beliefs in Science and Technology. Enjoy a new collection of stories introducing the strange denizens and happenings of the shadowy world of Japanese uncanny literature. Selected and with commentary by Higashi Masao, a recognized researcher and author in the field.

The list of authors includes some of the most famous names in Japanese literature: Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Edogawa Rampo, Hisao Juran, Endo Shusaku, Kawabata Yasunari and others.

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Higashi is an anthologist, literary critic and the editor of the first Japanese magazine specializing in Kaidan(Strange supernatural stories.) named Yoo.

In 1982 he founded Japan's only magazine for research into strange and uncanny literature, the Fantastic Literature Magazine (Genso Bungaku) published by Atelier Octa. He served as editor for twenty-one years until the magazine folded in 2003.

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